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I've just come back from two weeks of heavy technical training. I'm going to take a day off tommorrow from the nearly non-stop reading about the fascinating world of network routing protocols and all the various modes that one can connect a routers together and go ride the bike before fall turns to winter and Im stuck looking at my bike for 90 days and sighing at where I'd rather be.

I promise to be back in full screedy blog mode for the next two weeks before the last election in the Bush Presidency.

Yes, I noticed that the Airbus now has to sell 470+ of the new A380s just to break even. I also noticed that they've sold about 170 so far, and none this year at all. If Europe were an investment firm someone would be yelling "SELL" at the top of his lungs about Airbus.

Yes, I did notice that the loss in revenue to Airbus has now completely imperiled the second design of the A350. At this point, even if Airbus finds the money to develop the A350 it will arrive atleast 5 years after the Boeing 787 is on the market. Layoffs? Re-orgs? Re-structuring? Dump a few product lines that arent making money? Yes, A dynamic "for profit" company would do exactly that, but Airbus isn't any of those things, because its major shareholders are countries who want to ensure that the wasteful inefficient processes keep doing their ineffcient processes in their country,making airbus into the aircraft manufacturing equivalent of PBS. Europe should be privatizing Airbus, but instead they will overcontrol and overdo, laoning even more money to a bloated out of control nightmare that will lose even more money. Long story short, buy Boeing. When the 787 shows up, and the world takes notice of what the Carbon Fiber fuselage really means to aircraft manufacuting at all levels, you can thank me for the stock tip.

Yes, I noticed that the Iranian President has with a completely straight face told the Europeans to stop supporting Israel or "bad things might happen". 3,000 years later and the Persians are still working from the The Xerxes Handbook of Foreign Policy. It didn't work then, it wont work now, but it wont stop them from trying, now will it...

Yes, I did in fact notice that while the press loves to try to say that the Republicans are running away from President Bush, almost no one is pointing out that Lieberman is running away from the Democrats - and winning big as a result. When Lieberman wins and Webb loses, what does it say about the state of the warrior-democrat? It begs the question.

Oh and while I'm at it, Where's Howard Dean? Someone who's about to engineer a winning election for the Democrats seems mighty reserved and quiet,dontcha think?(Oh, I should've known, He's campaigning for Ned Lamont. That's how you find Howard, you just look for the big smoking hole in the ground where someones campaign augered into the ground after taking his advice...)

Yes, I did notice that North Korea has now decided to apologize for attempting to set off a second atomic test, and now appear to have stopped any testing procedures while at the same time, the US Secretary of State is getting lots of smile time with the Chinese President and Foreign Office. I also noticed that nearly no one in the 'World press' has given any credit to Secretary Rice for her diplomatic efforts in accomplishing this breakthrough.

Yes, I did notice the Democrats were caught leaking top security documents to the press for nothing but the ability to bash the President during an election. One day, and I suspect that day is not far off, someone in uniform is going to be killed out there in the field because someone in the Democrat party felt it was more necessary to "Get back at Bush" than to protect the safety of security of the United States at home and abroad. Someday, and I hope that day comes soon, people in the US press will begin to understand that they are citizens of this country and not just observers from another planet with no stake in who wins and who loses in the war of civilization.

Yes, I did notice CNN thinks its ok to show videos that show US servicemen being killed by terrorists in the interests of "equal time". Well, what do you expect from a company started by a man who can't decide what side he's on in the war on terror? Ever heard the phrase "The fish rots from the head down"?

CNN...Cable News Network, is it really "Chicken Noodle News" after all, as they were derisively called when they first started. I can think of something slightly more scatalogical than "noodle"... (Hey, maybe the 'Asshat News Network', if Rachel Lucas would allow me the use of the term...)

Remind me in two years of "who CNN was way back when" when they too go the way of the Los Angeles Examiner and the DoDo bird. If Larry King were to go and "have lunch" with Roger Ailes, CNN will be reduced to being known the "other news network", you know, the one whose only claim to fame is voiceovers from Darth Vader and with only slightly better audio than CNBC.

I promise. First a day filled with gasoline powered adrenaline, and then, blog,blog,blog.

Posted @ October 20, 2006 08:17 PM | Current Affairs

Posted by: roberto at October 21, 2006 02:32 PM

Posted by: RPD at October 23, 2006 06:35 AM